KUR
kašādu

Akkadian verb

Last edited: 2023-10-19
Primary meaning to reach
Literal translation to reach
Variants
KUR kašādu
Edited by
to reach verb of motion

GU4 ina 27(?) MAŠ.MAŠ KUR-ad2

‘Mercury reached 27° Gemini.’

— W 20030/10 (BH 16) rev. 6

Genre: horoscope
Provenance: Uruk
Date: 2nd century BCE

Rochberg, F. 1998. Babylonian Horoscopes. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 88, 1–164. 100

meš-ḫi ša₂ KUR-ad₂.MEŠ ša₂ ᵈUDU.IDIM.MEŠ ša₂ MU.1-me.29 m.Se-lu-ku LUGAL

‘Predictions of the reachings of the planets of year 1 hundred 29, king Seleucus.’

— BM 33873 (ADRT VII No. 158) rev. 7'

Genre: astronomical diaries and related texts: normal star almanac
Provenance: Babylon
Date: 183 BCE

Hunger, H. 2014. Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia, Vol. VII: Almanacs and Normal Star Almanacs. Vienna, Austria: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

to conquer verb of motion
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APA (7th)
Ossendrijver, M., & Schreiber, M. (2023). KUR (Lemma #1263). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1263/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Ossendrijver, M., & Schreiber, M. (2023). KUR (Lemma #1263). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1263/
MLA (9th)
Ossendrijver, M., & Schreiber, M. (2023). KUR (Lemma #1263). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1263/
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Ossendrijver, M. and Schreiber, M. (2023) KUR (Lemma #1263), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1263/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1263,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Ossendrijver, Mathieu and Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2023},
	title = {KUR ({Lemma} #1263)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1263/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1263/},
}